A Mets fan walks into an Applebee’s. That’s not a setup to a quip. It actually happens once a year that I know of, with me as the Mets fan. Applebee’s menu tends to shake out a bit on the salty side for my tastes, but salty is something I’ll never be if somebody is […]
 
Faith and Fear in Flushing made its debut on Feb. 16, 2005, the brainchild of two longtime friends and lifelong Met fans. Greg Prince discovered the Mets when he was 6, during the magical summer of 1969. He is a Long Island-based writer, editor and communications consultant. Contact him here. Jason Fry is a Brooklyn writer whose first memories include his mom leaping up and down cheering for Rusty Staub. Check out his other writing here. Got something to say? Leave a comment, or email us at faithandfear@gmail.com. (Sorry, but we have no interest in ads, sponsored content or guest posts.) Need our RSS feed? It's here. Visit our Facebook page, or drop by the personal pages for Greg and Jason. Or follow us on Twitter: Here's Greg, and here's Jason. |
 17 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2006 Mets, Applebee’s, Bo Bichette, Brandon Sproat, Carlos Beltran, Craig Kimbrel, Freddy Peralta, Generation MST3K, Hall of Fame, Isolation, Jett Williams, Luis Robert Jr., Luisangel Acuna, Pete Alonso, Pinch-Running, Stephen Sondheim, Strangers, Winter The agate type that used to fill newspapers’ TRANSACTIONS boxes and for all I know still do can change everything — about your team, about the players within, about the course of your expectations and satisfaction as fan. While the Hot Stove barely simmers, Kyle Tucker rumors notwithstanding, I’d like to take this opportunity revisit […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1993 Mets, 1994 Mets, 1995 Mets, Carlos Baerga, Carlos Beltran, Comic Books, David Cone, George Foster, Hall of Fame, Jeff Kent, Trades, Transactions “It’s great to be young and a New York Giant,” second baseman Larry Doyle declared to Damon Runyon in 1911, the year Doyle turned 25, the season the Giants won the first of three consecutive National League pennants. More than a century later, you could hear an echo of Laughing Larry in the earnest sentiments […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Basketball, Birthdays, Brandon Sproat, Clay Holmes, Football, Generation MST3K, Jerry Maguire, Jonah Tong, Larry Doyle, Mike Torrez, New York Giants, Nolan McLean, Youth of America Previously on Flashback Friday… A little piece of me is always watching the Mets in 1970. Mostly I was enchanted with the possibility that the Mets would win the World Series in 1975. I was in love with the 1980 Mets. They weren’t the first Mets team I was ever hung up on, but I think, given where […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2020 Mets, Andres Gimenez, David Peterson, Flashback Friday, Mad Men, Obscurity, Pete Alonso, Tom Seaver, Yoenis Cespedes The MY FAVORITE SEASONS, FROM LEAST FAVORITE TO MOST FAVORITE, 1969-PRESENT series is predicated on the notion that, essentially, every season is your old apartment. You moved in when the year began. Your lease was up when the year ended. You moved out and moved on. You carry with you the life you lived through […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2025 Mets, Apartments, Baseball Equinox, Jeff McNeil, My Favorite Seasons, My Least Favorite Seasons, The West Wing I woke up this past Friday with what we’ll politely call a stomach bug. That evening, in the wake of fitful rest, glacial recovery, zero appetite, and sporadic glimpses at my phone, I informed my wife, “Alonso and Diaz had their introductory press conferences with their new teams today.” “So,” she diagnosed, “that’s why you’ve been […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adrian Gonzalez, Alvin Dark, Billy Joel, Brandon Nimmo, Buddy Kerr, David Stearns, Eddie Stanky, Edwin Diaz, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Jorge Polanco, Leo Durocher, New York Giants, Pete Alonso, Queasiness, Red Webb, Sid Gordon, Willard Marshall At any given moment during the baseball season between Opening Day and August 31, there are 780 active players on major league rosters — 30 clubs, each with 26 players. Maybe a few more are scattered about if the 27th Man clause is invoked for a day-night doubleheader or neutral-site contest. On September 1, when […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2025 Mets, A Chorus Line, Nikon Camera Mets Player of the Year, Performance, Talent, The Odd Couple You may have noticed the New York Mets played no postseason games in 2025. To compensate for our favorite team’s autumnal shortfall, we are happy to have harvested a bushel of postseason Mets games as a coda to the completion of the most recent World Series…even if none of them is from 2025. Faith and Fear […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1973 Mets, 1986 Mets, 1988 Mets, 1999 Mets, 2000 Mets, 2006 Mets, 2015 Mets, 2016 Mets, 2022 Mets, 2024 Mets, Mets Postseason Games, Team History Many a Met could echo the official team ditty and implore us to hurry up and come on down to meet them as they’ve attempted to be really socking that ball, hitting those home runs over the wall. But only one in recent years had accrued the moral authority to lay on the line what […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, Brandon Nimmo, David Stearns, Marcus Semien, Surprises, Trades A more consistently robust, perhaps less finicky team Hall of Fame — the kind of institution that steps to the forefront with some regularity before mysteriously fading from view between releasing its intermittent puffs of orange and blue smoke — would have already included the three members the Mets recently announced as their 2026 inductees. […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Valentine, Carlos Beltran, Lee Mazzilli, Mets Hall of Fame |
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